{"500741":{"#nid":"500741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE Student is Headed to Airbus FYI Finals in Germany","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech aerospace engineering graduate student Mohit Gupta is on his way to Germany to compete in the final phase of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.airbus-fyi.com\/\u0022\u003EAirbus Fly Your Ideas\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ecompetition, May 27.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 22-year-old India native is a member of a team of international engineering students who put together\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMultifun\u003C\/strong\u003E, a hybrid battery-piezoelectric composite structure intended for next-generation aircraft design.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team that wins the final competition will receive 30,000 Euros and a chance to pitch its concept to Airbus officials. The runner-up will receive 15,000 Euros.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGupta is the only student from the United States represented in the final stage of this world-wide competition, which attracted more than 100 teams. He collaborated with his team-mates -- from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and India -- using Google Drive, Google Hang-out, and email.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I have never met any of them, but we have worked well together. Because of the time differences, there was always someone working on the project,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022And this is the way the industry is doing collaboration because they want to take advantage of\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eexpertise around the world. So it was good practice.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir project involves the harvest of energy that is generated naturally by aircraft wing vibration. Rather than letting it dissipate, the team proposes the use of a piezoelectric material to collect the energy and store it in battery fibers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough spread out across the globe, members of Team Multifun are united in their relationship with Indian Institute of Science\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Dineshkumar Harursampath\u003C\/strong\u003E, GT-AE PhDAE \u002799, a former doctoral student of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Dewey\u0026nbsp;Hodges\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;It is Harursampath\u0027s concept that Multifun has been finessing for the Airbus competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Professor Harursampath was my mentor, as an undergraduate,\u0022\u0026nbsp;says Gupta, who now works in Dr. Hodges\u0027 lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022They are both so smart. I am very lucky to be working with them both.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech aerospace engineering graduate student Mohit Gupta is on his way to Germany to compete in the final phase of the Airbus Fly Your Ideas competition, May 27."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-15 16:14:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"500751":{"id":"500751","type":"image","title":"Mohit Gupta","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895261","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:21","alt":"Mohit Gupta","file":{"fid":"204708","name":"img_7021_-_copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_7021_-_copy_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_7021_-_copy_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1268953,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_7021_-_copy_0.jpg?itok=o25S3z0y"}}},"media_ids":["500751"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"},{"id":"2888","name":"Airbus"},{"id":"171705","name":"Fly Your Ideas"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"169919","name":"Mohit Gupta"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}